EP0365552B1 - Optical storage disk and method of its manufacture - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a method of manufacturing an optical storage disk, and to an apparatus for carrying out the manufacturing process.
- Optical storage disks are known as recording medium for video, audio, or digital information, and consist of a substrate with a coating into which optically scannable indicia in concentric or spiral-shaped tracks are generated. These indicia alter the optical characteristics (e.g. intensity or polarization) of a light beam of low intensity which is directed onto the rotating storage disk for reading out the stored information. For writing in the indicia, light beams of higher intensity can be used which alter an optical characteristic of the coating layer, or injection molding processes in those cases where the indicia represent small recesses, so-called pits.
- indicia alter the optical characteristics (e.g. intensity or polarization) of a light beam of low intensity which is directed onto the rotating storage disk for reading out the stored information.
- light beams of higher intensity can be used which alter an optical characteristic of the coating layer, or injection molding processes in those cases where the indicia represent small recesses, so-called pits.
- optical storage disks lies in the high storage density that can be achieved, since optical scanning permits track widths and track spacings in the micrometer range.
- Such small dimensions require a servo-control of the light beams focussed onto the information tracks, such servo-control being usually carried out with pre-grooved guide tracks on the optical storage disk. If, to give an example, the focus of the light beam is displaced during the rotation of the disk relative to the guide track, the intensity distribution in the reflected light beam will be altered, too, which is determined with suitably arranged photodetectors (e.g. 4-quadrant detectors) and converted into a corresponding closed-loop control signal.
- photodetectors e.g. 4-quadrant detectors
- the required relief of pre-formed guide tracks is generated in a synthetic layer which is either part of the synthetic substrate forming the entire optical storage disk (video or audio disks) or which has been deposited on a glass substrate, as suggested mainly for high quality optical storage disks for the storing of digital data.
- a synthetic layer which is either part of the synthetic substrate forming the entire optical storage disk (video or audio disks) or which has been deposited on a glass substrate, as suggested mainly for high quality optical storage disks for the storing of digital data.
- an additional layer can then be applied which, e.g. for magneto-optical storage disks, represents the actual information storage layer.
- the guide grooves are made preferably with stamps in the synthetic layer, e.g. a polymeric layer; owing to the small dimensions of the structures, the large surface,to be processed with a perfect finish, and the high costs involved, photolithographic methods do not appear desirable for commercial use.
- the characteristics of glass as e.g. its resistance to environment influence and a low optical double refraction recommend it for substrates of high-quality optical storage disks; the hitherto used sandwich structure with a deposited synthetic layer in which the guide tracks are formed with the necessary precision would, however, increase the costs for the manufacture of such disks. If whose information can be erased and modified by light beams of high intensity, e.g. in disks with a thermomagnetic storage layer the repeated thermal load would cause decomposition of the synthetic layer and reduce the disk lifetime. Besides, the relatively low breaking resistance of glass represents a problem which calls for a complex chemical hardening process.
- JP-A-57 163536 An apparatus for manufacturing glass substrates is known from JP-A-57 163536 which only uses conventional rigid stamps and provides air nozzles to apply pressure to the COLD substrate for changing its curvature.
- the stamping process is started only after the stamps have been brought into contact with the substrate by applying heat to the stamps so that a thin surface layer of the plastic substrate is softened.
- Fig. 1 depicts an optical storage system using an optical storage disk as recording medium which, according to the invention, consists of a glass substrate 1 whose guide tracks 3 are directly formed in the substrate by means of a hot stamp process; in an embodiment the guide tracks are provided concentrically to the disk center and have a width b of 0.6 ⁇ m and a mutual center spacing m of 2 ⁇ m. Depth t of the guide tracks is approximately 600 nm..
- substrate 1 is coated with a layer 2 in which optical indicia 4 can be generated to represent the recorded information; such a representation can e.g. be a digital-binary data representation where the presence or absence of indicia is sensed, or the length of indicia 4.
- Different optical layers 2 can be used for optical disk storages; e.g. magneto-optical layers where indicia 4, compared with their surroundings, have a reversed axial magnetization, or reflection layers where indicia 4 effect an intensity reduction of the reflected light.
- Indicia 4 can be provided in the guide tracks themselves, or on the lands therebetween.
- the information stored on the optical disk is readout in that the disk being rotated in the direction of arrow 9 is scanned along the indicia tracks with a light beam 7 focussed by an optical system 5 on the surface of the information-carrying layer 2.
- the reflected light is deflected at a semi-transparent mirror 6 to a light detector 8 whose output signal is fed to respective evaluator circuits for data recognition and servo-control of the light spot position on the storage disk.
- the transfer of the guide track structure onto the glass substrate is effected according to the invention with a stamp that forms the track grooves directly in substrate 1 which is heated above the softening point of the glass.
- the stamp When selecting the material for the stamp it has to be made sure that the guide track structure can be transferred onto the stamp without complex process steps and with the necessary precision, that the stamp has a high holding time for the respective process temperatures, in particular that it does not scale or carbonize, and that stamp and heated glass blank do not stick together.
- a suitable material that comes up very well to the two first-mentioned demands is a disk of mono-cristalline silicon into which, by means of conventional photolithographic processes, a relief in accordance with the reversed guide track structure is transferred.
- Sticking between the silicon stamp and the glass blank can be avoided by means of a hardening layer deposited on the stamp surface, such hardening layer differing considerably from the glass in its chemical aspects.
- the hardening layer may consist of diamond-like carbon which is deposited by known processes as a hard amorphous layer on the structured silicon surface. The characteristics and manufacturing processes of such layers are known, e.g. from the articles assembled in a recently published biography on this subject (Appl. Physics Comm., Vol. 5, No. 4, Dec. 1985, pp. 263-283).
- These layers are preferably deposited in plasma. They can also be removed again in a plasma with oxygen filling, so that one and the same silicon stamp can be repeatedly cleaned of used layers, and re-hardened.
- Other hard surface layers can also be used, e.g. Si3N4, SiC, TiN, etc.
- Noble metal coatings can also be used for the surface hardening of Si stamps, e.g. platinum; to increase the adhesion of a Pt layer to Si, a partial diffusion of Pt into Si can be achieved through a hot process known from the manufacture of integrated semiconductor circuits.
- noble metals e.g. Pt, Ru, Rh, Pd, as well as noble steel, Ni or Cu, if necessary with a surface hardening layer.
- the thermal expansion coefficient of the stamp material should preferably correspond to that of the glass substrate since, as specified in detail below, the glass substrate is to be cooled after the forming process in contact with the stamp.
- the invention furthermore suggests to provide a slight edge slope in the stamp instead of vertical edges, and to increase the height of the stamp structures compared with the depth of the guide structures on the glass substrate made thereby.
- Fig. 2 shows a detail of the cross section through stamp 20 with a surface hardening layer 21 and with a stamp relief 22 for a guide track, whose depth d in substrate 1 only amounts to a fraction of height h of the stamp relief 22.
- the lateral edges of stamp relief 22 are inclined and form an angle ⁇ ⁇ 90 ⁇ 50° which can be fixed at discretion within wide limits by suitable photolithographic etching steps.
- stamp 20 touches substrate 1 during stamping only with the conical upper part of its stamp relief 22, insuring an easy separation between stamp and glass substrate after cooling.
- the large ratio h/d guarantees even for large surfaces to be stamped that in regions 23 there is no contact between stamp 20 and substrate 1; if after stamping, substrate 1 is coated with the optical storage layer the original smooth surface of substrate 1 in land regions 23 is available for receiving the optical indicia.
- stamps can be used which, after stamping, contact the substrate with their entire surface.
- the glass substrate has to be heated in excess of the softening point of the glass types used (typically higher than 600°C).
- the stamp temperature should preferably be lower than the transformation temperature of the glass type used (typically 380-450°C); in that case, a thermal hardening of the glass substrate will be achieved by the cooling of the stamps, as specified below in detail.
- the process should be performed in inert gas or in a reducing atmosphere (e.g. forming gas).
- stamp temperatures that were only slightly lower than that of the heated glass substrate; in order to increase the stability of the glass substrate, a subsequent hardening step (chemically or thermally) is added.
- a high electrical voltage can be applied between the stamp (as a cathode) and the substrate (which may be-contacted by a gold layer at its rear surface), either alone or in combination with mechanical pressure.
- This alternative is similar to the known anodic bonding process and uses voltages in the order of 1000 V and above; the temperature of the glass substrate may be as low as 300°C which gives sufficient electrical conductivity.
- the high electrostatic forces and possibly some ion transportation effects replicate (or help to replicate) the relief of the stamp in the glass substrate. Reversing the voltage can help to separate stamp and substrate without sticking.
- the invention therefore suggests, in one embodiment, to arrange thin stamp stencils on a flexible stamp support whose curvature can be altered by applying hydrostatic pressure.
- the stamp can be brought into stepwise contact with the glass substrate, starting from the center or from the edges, and with a concave or convex shape of the stamp which, by pressure modifications, can gradually be approached to planar form.
- Fig. 3 shows a stamp arrangement for such flexible stamp stencils.
- a stamp part 30 movable in vertical direction can be shifted relative to a stationary stamp part 31 onto whose planar stamp support 38 the glass substrate 1 is placed in such a manner that its center opening engages in a centering pin 36 of stamp support 38.
- Stamp stencil 35 e.g. a thin flexible monocristalline silicon disk whose surface is provided with the complement of the guide track relief of glass substrate 1, is fixed at the lower side of upper stamp part 30 which consists e.g. of a molybdanum frame 34 whose relatively thin stamp plate 34a can adopt a concave or convex curve upon the application of a hydrostatic pressure in chamber 33.
- Molybdenum is selected for frame 34 owing to the similarity of its thermal expansion coefficient (4 ⁇ 10 _6 C _1 ) relative to silicon (3 ⁇ 10 _6 C _1 ).
- the inflow and outflow of temperature- resistant liquids through lines 31a, 31b can be altered by means of a valve 32.
- a Si coating To protect molybdenum against oxidation it can be provided with a Si coating.
- Stamp matrix 35 can be fixed to stamp plate 34a, e.g. by hard soldering.
- Stationary stamp part 31 also contains a chamber 37 for a liquid entering or existing via lines 301a, 301b.
- one or both stamp parts 30, 31 can comprise air channels 39 for compressed air application.
- heating devices for the substrate or the stamp stencil, respectively can also be included which permit to maintain various temperatures.
- the arrangement in accordance with Fig. 3 can be operated in such a manner that, in one process step, the guide track structure is stamped into substrate 1 and the substrate is thermally hardened through a sudden inhomogeneous cooling step in order to increase the breaking resistance of the optical storage disk.
- chambers 33 and 37 are supplied with a coolant, e.g. water, after the stamping of substrate 1 with the upper stamp part 30, to achieve rapid cooling of the surfaces of substrate 1, and to cool the entire substrate 1 with a parabolic temperature curve (cool surfaces and warmer interior) below the transformation temperature of the glass, thus converting the temperature profile into a tension profile which gives the glass a high mechanical stability.
- a coolant e.g. water
- stamps with edges deviating from the vertical is effected by photolithographic methods with a suitable selected etching ratio between photoresist and substrate.
- Figs. 4A to 4D represent some steps of such an etching process, using a photoresist 40 with "vertical" edges.
- reactive anisotropic ion etching with a CF4 -pressure of approximately 1,33 Pa (10 m Torr) and corresponding high frequency power, the structure of Fig. 4A is transferred into the silicon substrate, with the stamp structure being etched only partly in a first step (Fig. 4B).
- the anisotropic etching process isthen replaced by an isotropic etching process (at approximately 13,3 Pa (100 m Torr) pressure and O2 as the gas) to uniformly etch teh photoresist mask alone (Fig. 4C).
- This process can easily be controlled up to a precision of ⁇ 0.1 rm.
- the original edges 41 of the stamp pit are thus exposed and bevelled in a subsequent anisotropic etching process at 1,33 Pa (10 m Torr) and CF4 as gas (Fig. 4D).
- this change between anisotropic and isotropic etching has to be performed once or several times for achieving the desired profile.
- stamp edges 51 with the same angle can be made by means of a reactive ion etching step at low pressure (approximately 1,33 Pa (10 m Torr)) and an etching rate ratio between mask and substrate of approximately 1: 1 (Figs. 5A, 5B).
- the gas used is e.g. CF4.
- Glass substrates with a useful guide track structure can e.g. be made with the following process parameters: These tests show that higher stamp temperatures cause sharper structures, i.e. with sharper edges and lands with improved planeness.
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- The invention relates to a method of manufacturing an optical storage disk, and to an apparatus for carrying out the manufacturing process.
- Optical storage disks are known as recording medium for video, audio, or digital information, and consist of a substrate with a coating into which optically scannable indicia in concentric or spiral-shaped tracks are generated. These indicia alter the optical characteristics (e.g. intensity or polarization) of a light beam of low intensity which is directed onto the rotating storage disk for reading out the stored information. For writing in the indicia, light beams of higher intensity can be used which alter an optical characteristic of the coating layer, or injection molding processes in those cases where the indicia represent small recesses, so-called pits.
- The advantage of optical storage disks lies in the high storage density that can be achieved, since optical scanning permits track widths and track spacings in the micrometer range.
- Such small dimensions require a servo-control of the light beams focussed onto the information tracks, such servo-control being usually carried out with pre-grooved guide tracks on the optical storage disk. If, to give an example, the focus of the light beam is displaced during the rotation of the disk relative to the guide track, the intensity distribution in the reflected light beam will be altered, too, which is determined with suitably arranged photodetectors (e.g. 4-quadrant detectors) and converted into a corresponding closed-loop control signal.
- In conventional optical storage disks the required relief of pre-formed guide tracks (or guide grooves) is generated in a synthetic layer which is either part of the synthetic substrate forming the entire optical storage disk (video or audio disks) or which has been deposited on a glass substrate, as suggested mainly for high quality optical storage disks for the storing of digital data. Onto the guide track relief an additional layer can then be applied which, e.g. for magneto-optical storage disks, represents the actual information storage layer.
- The guide grooves are made preferably with stamps in the synthetic layer, e.g. a polymeric layer; owing to the small dimensions of the structures, the large surface,to be processed with a perfect finish, and the high costs involved, photolithographic methods do not appear desirable for commercial use.
- The characteristics of glass, as e.g. its resistance to environment influence and a low optical double refraction recommend it for substrates of high-quality optical storage disks; the hitherto used sandwich structure with a deposited synthetic layer in which the guide tracks are formed with the necessary precision would, however, increase the costs for the manufacture of such disks. If whose information can be erased and modified by light beams of high intensity, e.g. in disks with a thermomagnetic storage layer the repeated thermal load would cause decomposition of the synthetic layer and reduce the disk lifetime. Besides, the relatively low breaking resistance of glass represents a problem which calls for a complex chemical hardening process.
- An optical disk using a glass substrate with grooved guide tracks has been described in EP-A-0145344; a method to form guide tracks in a glass substrate by a hot stamping process is disclosed in JP-A-61 194663.
- An apparatus for manufacturing glass substrates is known from JP-A-57 163536 which only uses conventional rigid stamps and provides air nozzles to apply pressure to the COLD substrate for changing its curvature. The stamping process is started only after the stamps have been brought into contact with the substrate by applying heat to the stamps so that a thin surface layer of the plastic substrate is softened.
- The requirements for mechanical stability of the substrates and the high precision of the guide tracks over a large surface area call however for improved methods of manufacture.
- It is therefore the object of the present invention to provide an improved method of making glass substrates for optical disks, as well as an apparatus for carrying out the method.
- This object is achieved by the invention as specified in
claims - Embodiments of the invention will now be described in detail with reference to drawings which show the following:
- Fig. 1: A schematic represention of an optical storage system in a cross-section through a storage glass disk with grooved guide tracks shown in perspective view;
- Fig. 2: an enlarged section of the surface of a stamp with bevelled edges for stamping the guide tracks into the glass substrate;
- Fig. 3: a schematic representation of a cross-section through a stamp arrangement for stamping guide tracks into a glass substrate for an optical storage disk;
- Figs. 4 A-D: an example of etching steps in making a silicone stamp with bevelled edges using a photoresist with vertical profile;
- Figs. 5 A, B: an example of etching steps in making a silicone stamp with bevelled edges using a photoresist with "shallow" profile.
- In the drawings, which are strictly schematical, the same reference numbers refer to the same objects.
- Fig. 1 depicts an optical storage system using an optical storage disk as recording medium which, according to the invention, consists of a
glass substrate 1 whoseguide tracks 3 are directly formed in the substrate by means of a hot stamp process; in an embodiment the guide tracks are provided concentrically to the disk center and have a width b of 0.6 µm and a mutual center spacing m of 2 µm. Depth t of the guide tracks is approximately 600 nm.. After the stamping-in of the guide track structure,substrate 1 is coated with a layer 2 in whichoptical indicia 4 can be generated to represent the recorded information; such a representation can e.g. be a digital-binary data representation where the presence or absence of indicia is sensed, or the length ofindicia 4. Different optical layers 2 can be used for optical disk storages; e.g. magneto-optical layers whereindicia 4, compared with their surroundings, have a reversed axial magnetization, or reflection layers where indicia 4 effect an intensity reduction of the reflected light.Indicia 4 can be provided in the guide tracks themselves, or on the lands therebetween. - The information stored on the optical disk is readout in that the disk being rotated in the direction of arrow 9 is scanned along the indicia tracks with a light beam 7 focussed by an optical system 5 on the surface of the information-carrying layer 2. The reflected light is deflected at a semi-transparent mirror 6 to a
light detector 8 whose output signal is fed to respective evaluator circuits for data recognition and servo-control of the light spot position on the storage disk. - The transfer of the guide track structure onto the glass substrate, which may consist of a plane float glass with highly planar surfaces, is effected according to the invention with a stamp that forms the track grooves directly in
substrate 1 which is heated above the softening point of the glass. Experiments have surprisingly shown that by selecting suitable materials and process parameters, and by following this apparently simple process the required fine structures can be transferred onto large glass substrates with high quality. - When selecting the material for the stamp it has to be made sure that the guide track structure can be transferred onto the stamp without complex process steps and with the necessary precision, that the stamp has a high holding time for the respective process temperatures, in particular that it does not scale or carbonize, and that stamp and heated glass blank do not stick together.
- A suitable material that comes up very well to the two first-mentioned demands is a disk of mono-cristalline silicon into which, by means of conventional photolithographic processes, a relief in accordance with the reversed guide track structure is transferred. Sticking between the silicon stamp and the glass blank can be avoided by means of a hardening layer deposited on the stamp surface, such hardening layer differing considerably from the glass in its chemical aspects. The hardening layer may consist of diamond-like carbon which is deposited by known processes as a hard amorphous layer on the structured silicon surface. The characteristics and manufacturing processes of such layers are known, e.g. from the articles assembled in a recently published biography on this subject (Appl. Physics Comm., Vol. 5, No. 4, Dec. 1985, pp. 263-283). These layers are preferably deposited in plasma. They can also be removed again in a plasma with oxygen filling, so that one and the same silicon stamp can be repeatedly cleaned of used layers, and re-hardened. Other hard surface layers can also be used, e.g. Si₃N₄, SiC, TiN, etc.
- Noble metal coatings can also be used for the surface hardening of Si stamps, e.g. platinum; to increase the adhesion of a Pt layer to Si, a partial diffusion of Pt into Si can be achieved through a hot process known from the manufacture of integrated semiconductor circuits.
- Apart from siliccn as stamp material, it is also possible to use noble metals as e.g. Pt, Ru, Rh, Pd, as well as noble steel, Ni or Cu, if necessary with a surface hardening layer.
- The thermal expansion coefficient of the stamp material should preferably correspond to that of the glass substrate since, as specified in detail below, the glass substrate is to be cooled after the forming process in contact with the stamp. In order to prevent jamming of stamp and glass substrate during this cooling process, the invention furthermore suggests to provide a slight edge slope in the stamp instead of vertical edges, and to increase the height of the stamp structures compared with the depth of the guide structures on the glass substrate made thereby.
- Fig. 2 shows a detail of the cross section through
stamp 20 with asurface hardening layer 21 and with astamp relief 22 for a guide track, whose depth d insubstrate 1 only amounts to a fraction of height h of thestamp relief 22. The lateral edges ofstamp relief 22 are inclined and form an angle α < 90 < 50° which can be fixed at discretion within wide limits by suitable photolithographic etching steps. - Thus, stamp 20
touches substrate 1 during stamping only with the conical upper part of itsstamp relief 22, insuring an easy separation between stamp and glass substrate after cooling. - The large ratio h/d guarantees even for large surfaces to be stamped that in regions 23 there is no contact between
stamp 20 andsubstrate 1; if after stamping,substrate 1 is coated with the optical storage layer the original smooth surface ofsubstrate 1 in land regions 23 is available for receiving the optical indicia. - If the thermal contact between stamp and substrate is to be improved, stamps can be used which, after stamping, contact the substrate with their entire surface.
- In the proposed hot stamping process, the glass substrate has to be heated in excess of the softening point of the glass types used (typically higher than 600°C). Prior to stamping, however, the stamp temperature should preferably be lower than the transformation temperature of the glass type used (typically 380-450°C); in that case, a thermal hardening of the glass substrate will be achieved by the cooling of the stamps, as specified below in detail. To avoid oxidation of the stamp and other tools, the process should be performed in inert gas or in a reducing atmosphere (e.g. forming gas).
- Satisfactory results with respect to the precision of the stamp impression could also be reached with stamp temperatures that were only slightly lower than that of the heated glass substrate; in order to increase the stability of the glass substrate, a subsequent hardening step (chemically or thermally) is added.
- Instead of forming grooves in the heated glass substrate by purely mechanical pressure, a high electrical voltage can be applied between the stamp (as a cathode) and the substrate (which may be-contacted by a gold layer at its rear surface), either alone or in combination with mechanical pressure. This alternative is similar to the known anodic bonding process and uses voltages in the order of 1000 V and above; the temperature of the glass substrate may be as low as 300°C which gives sufficient electrical conductivity.
- The high electrostatic forces and possibly some ion transportation effects replicate (or help to replicate) the relief of the stamp in the glass substrate. Reversing the voltage can help to separate stamp and substrate without sticking.
- Even if manufactured with high precision, plane glass substrates show large surface irregularities with a range of several micrometers, so that the present low stamping depths for the guide track structure and the large surfaces of optical storage disks will make it difficult to produce uniform guide tracks over the entire disk surface with stiff stamps. The invention therefore suggests, in one embodiment, to arrange thin stamp stencils on a flexible stamp support whose curvature can be altered by applying hydrostatic pressure. By suitably varying the pressure, the stamp can be brought into stepwise contact with the glass substrate, starting from the center or from the edges, and with a concave or convex shape of the stamp which, by pressure modifications, can gradually be approached to planar form.
- Fig. 3 shows a stamp arrangement for such flexible stamp stencils. A
stamp part 30 movable in vertical direction can be shifted relative to astationary stamp part 31 onto whoseplanar stamp support 38 theglass substrate 1 is placed in such a manner that its center opening engages in a centeringpin 36 ofstamp support 38.Stamp stencil 35, e.g. a thin flexible monocristalline silicon disk whose surface is provided with the complement of the guide track relief ofglass substrate 1, is fixed at the lower side ofupper stamp part 30 which consists e.g. of amolybdanum frame 34 whose relativelythin stamp plate 34a can adopt a concave or convex curve upon the application of a hydrostatic pressure inchamber 33. Molybdenum is selected forframe 34 owing to the similarity of its thermal expansion coefficient (4 × 10_6 C_1) relative to silicon (3 × 10_6 C_1). For altering the hydrostatic pressure inchamber 33, the inflow and outflow of temperature- resistant liquids throughlines valve 32. To protect molybdenum against oxidation it can be provided with a Si coating. -
Stamp matrix 35 can be fixed to stampplate 34a, e.g. by hard soldering. -
Stationary stamp part 31 also contains achamber 37 for a liquid entering or existing vialines 301a, 301b. For removing theglass substrate 1 after the stamping process, one or bothstamp parts air channels 39 for compressed air application. - In both
stamp parts - The arrangement in accordance with Fig. 3 can be operated in such a manner that, in one process step, the guide track structure is stamped into
substrate 1 and the substrate is thermally hardened through a sudden inhomogeneous cooling step in order to increase the breaking resistance of the optical storage disk. For that purpose,chambers substrate 1 with theupper stamp part 30, to achieve rapid cooling of the surfaces ofsubstrate 1, and to cool theentire substrate 1 with a parabolic temperature curve (cool surfaces and warmer interior) below the transformation temperature of the glass, thus converting the temperature profile into a tension profile which gives the glass a high mechanical stability. - The production of stamps with edges deviating from the vertical is effected by photolithographic methods with a suitable selected etching ratio between photoresist and substrate. Figs. 4A to 4D represent some steps of such an etching process, using a
photoresist 40 with "vertical" edges. Through reactive anisotropic ion etching with a CF₄ -pressure of approximately 1,33 Pa (10 m Torr) and corresponding high frequency power, the structure of Fig. 4A is transferred into the silicon substrate, with the stamp structure being etched only partly in a first step (Fig. 4B). The anisotropic etching process isthen replaced by an isotropic etching process (at approximately 13,3 Pa (100 m Torr) pressure and O₂ as the gas) to uniformly etch teh photoresist mask alone (Fig. 4C). This process can easily be controlled up to a precision of ± 0.1 rm. The original edges 41 of the stamp pit are thus exposed and bevelled in a subsequent anisotropic etching process at 1,33 Pa (10 m Torr) and CF₄ as gas (Fig. 4D). Depending on the desired etch depth of the stamp structure, this change between anisotropic and isotropic etching has to be performed once or several times for achieving the desired profile. - If photoresists with "shallow" edges (α < 70°C) are used, stamp edges 51 with the same angle can be made by means of a reactive ion etching step at low pressure (approximately 1,33 Pa (10 m Torr)) and an etching rate ratio between mask and substrate of approximately 1: 1 (Figs. 5A, 5B). The gas used is e.g. CF₄.
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characterized in that
the stamping device comprises at least one flexible stamping stencil (35) which is fixed at a flexible
stamp support (34a) representing the exterior wall (34) of a hydrostatic chamber (33), wherein the wall curvature is changeable by applying a hydrostatic pressure.
characterized in that
the stencil is a wafer of monocristalline silicon with a photolithographically applied surface pattern in accordance with the guide tracks, and that the edges of the stencil pattern are inclined relative to the vertical.
characterized in that
the stencil is surface hardened.
characterized in that
the stencil comprises a surface layer of diamond-like amorphous carbon.
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